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School age lessons

Classes

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  Jellyfish

  For the non-confident beginner who has had little or no aquatic programme experience. The classes focus on safe entries and exits, blowing bubbles and submerging in water and floating in the water with assistance.

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  Flounders

  This class is designed to teach floating and propulsion skills. This is the right class if your child can float on front and back relaxed with assistance, blow bubbles and can go underwater and retrieve objects from the bottom of the pool.

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  Eels

  This class is designed to teach school aged children how to kick independently and introduces the freestyle stroke. This is the right class if your child can float unaided on their front and back and can do aided propulsion on their front.

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  Stingrays

  This class is designed to teach the basics of freestyle, backstroke and water safety skills. This is the right class if your child can independently kick on their front and back for 7.5 metres.

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  Sharks

  A class that introduces breathing techniques, survival backstroke and works on increasing water safety knowledge. This is the right class if your child can swim with confident freestyle arms and swim backstroke independently.

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  Tiger Sharks

  This class is designed to consolidate breathing skills with freestyle and backstroke and water safety survival skills including using a lifejacket. This is the right class if your child can swim 10m freestyle with breathing and swim 10m backstroke.

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  Barracudas

  A class designed to increase swimming distance in freestyle and backstroke, introduce breaststroke arms and a 50m survival swim. At the beginning of this class, your child should be able to breathe with their freestyle 15m, backstroke 15m and demonstrate propulsion through the water using a sculling action.

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  Marlins

  Designed to consolidate techniques of freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke while combining water safety skills learned in earlier levels to be able to perform a sequence of 5 water safety skills continuously. This is the right class if your child can swim 25m freestyle with bilateral breathing, swim 25m backstroke and swim breaststroke.

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  Junior Learners

  A great opportunity for children aged nine to 14 years who have never learned to swim. Designed to build confidence and water safety skills for the older swimmer within a small group, starting with floating and moving onto freestyle and backstroke techniques.